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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:30:21PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: |
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> A reasonable alternative would be to have a separate variable in make.conf, |
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> such as ECLASS_OVERLAY_DIRS, which specifies acceptable overlays for eclasses. |
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> In most cases, users would probably only have their own, local overlay there, |
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> and any eclasses found there should be used in preference to any in portage |
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> or in the overlay the ebuild came from, if applicable. |
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> Every time portage looks for an eclass, it should check there first (caching |
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> what it found, to save future lookups w/in that run) and just use anything |
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> it finds. |
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repos.conf has functionality of this sort, although you'll have to |
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consult the man page for the exact option name... |
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~brian |
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